Daniela Hantuchova has been confirmed to play at ASB Classic in Auckland on January 2006.

Currently world number 19, Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova reached the third round of all four Grand Slam events is the another under 20 ranked player, with WTA number 10 Nadia Petrova, in the tournament.

Richard Palmer, the tournament director says the pair are exciting to watch, and neither has been to Auckland before so it is great to get some fresh faces for the tournament.

Apart from reaching the third round of all four Grand Slams this year and Daniela Hantuchova has previously made the Quarter Finals at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2002 and Australian Open in 2003.

Daniela Hantuchova has been as high as number five in the rankings and Palmer says she is coming to Auckland to begin her rise back up in to the top ten.

He says to get a player of Daniela Hantuchova’s calibre is brilliant and they are over the moon to have two extremely talented top twenty players heading down under.

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